(Using an old version of xemacs and M-x report-emacs-bug sent a message to the wrong address (xemacs(a)xemacs.org). I am resending it to xemacs-beta. I have also attached a bzip2'd transcript of the build, in case anyone is interested.) I tried to build xemacs-21.5.18 from the source tarball using the commands % ./configure i386-redhat-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man/man1 --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gpm=no --with-sound=native --with-pop --mail-locking=lockf --with-clash-detection --debug=yes --with-mule=no --with-database=berkdb --with-ldap=yes --with-hesiod=no --with-canna=yes --with-wnn=yes --with-xim=xlib --with-athena=3d --with-widgets=athena --with-menubars=lucid --with-scrollbars=lucid --with-dialogs=athena --with-msw=no --with-xfs=yes --pdump % make -C lib-src % make src/Emacs.ad.h % make -C src But the last of these failed with Generating custom-load.el... Compiling /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/lisp/custom-load.el... Wrote /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/lisp/custom-load.elc Building finder database ... rm -f /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/src/../lisp/finder-inf.el ./xemacs -no-packages -batch -eval "(setq finder-compile-keywords-quiet t)" \ -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords Requiring finder-inf... (file finder-inf.el is newer)  xemacs exiting. Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "finder-inf.el">make: *** [/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/src/../lisp/finder-inf.el] Error 255 make: Leaving directory `/home/usr_src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/src' I looked for this error message and found the thread <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/thread=8560/force_loa...;, but I don't fully understand what it is talking about. Because I have xemacs already installed on my system I had a copy of finder-inf.el and its .elc file in /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b18/. I tried getting rid of those, but 'make -C src' still gives the same error. FWIW, I am building xemacs as non-root. Please let me know if you're able to reproduce this. -- Ed Avis <ed(a)membled.com&gt;